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The art of Egypt is heavily influenced by religious and spiritual ideas and culture that goes back thousands of years. Dynastic Egypt was one of the earliest civilizations in the world according to the definition of modern civilization. Ancient Egypt was a land of intense and pervasive magic.
The Egyptians were obsessed with the future life more than this life, even though this obsession belied a deep sensuality. The spiritual and religious ideas of the Egyptians all focus on idea that this life is to live in such a way that makes himself worthy of being taken by the gods in the other world, the world or the land of "millions of years," where there is no aging and people live with the gods for such a long time, very long at all and purposes they become immortal.
Many researchers in spiritual and religious ideas that influence Egyptian art have thus pointed out that the religion of ancient Egypt had a strong similarity with Christianity at least in this form. Of course, the Christian Gospels relate that Jesus and his family somehow had some ties with Egypt, but in that moment in history Egypt had long become an enemy of the earth considered hostile, dangerous and anti-Jewish. And one of the most important pioneers of the Jewish nation, Moses left Egypt as well. Some researchers believe that Moses was an Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton historically.
Even in that name renegade Pharaohs is the world "akh", that spiritual and religious thought Egypt is one of the five components of personality that make up an entire being. The Akh in Egyptian religious thought is re-united and Ka Ba (two other components of a person being) who have been reunited in the afterlife in the new land of "millions of years. "The five components of personality had a strong influence on Egyptian art.
The AKH has been represented as a hand with the thumb and index finger close to each other or are brought together to represent the complete circle of earthly birth, earthly death, and rebirth in the new land of the afterlife. Hieroglyphic, the Akh was depicted as an Ibis bird facing right, the east, the direction of rebirth, where the sun rises new every day. In fact, the ibis of ancient Egypt was called "the akh bird crest."
Originally, spiritual and religious ideas of Egypt considered that only royalty (including the priesthood) could reach the afterlife, all other on earth was here to serve you and then die in the dark when his life was over.
Thus, the pharaohs and priests and other characters have real artists create magnificent tomb murals depicting the life of their achievements and his devotion to the gods (who in ancient Egypt were not truly "gods" as we think about such things today, but were rather superior beings called NTR, or "Neter" which translates to "guardians", but also created mankind, "Neter" is probably the root of our word Modern English "nature").
Royal tomb painters were therefore very important people, although they have not always had in the afterlife and were killed sometimes prevent them from working for another. Later on, however, grew a middle class Egyptian who also had the Hereafter, and religious beliefs were modified to accommodate them.
Animals are extremely important to Egyptian art. The beetle known beetle, which rolls up balls and put your own compost the eggs inside them, is the symbol of rebirth and the sixth sense.
And a divine creature that is half crocodile and hippo medium is represented as waiting to devour a soul whose heart, when weighed by the goddess Maat, is heavier than a feather, these people do not go over in the Hereafter. Artistically provided feathers and symbols of flight as birds like the ibis are also extremely important to Egyptian spiritual and religious ideas.
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